Comments on: Hundreds Of Babies At Risk In TB Scare

S.F. Hospital Informs 960 Mothers That Former Postpartum Unit Employee Was Infected

[haoli25]

TB is just another of the many ''gifts'' our illegal friends from south of the border bring us.

[pollroller1]

I sure hope that none of those babies test positive. What a terrible thing to be faced with.

[blamegovt]

Typical actions from San Francisco LIBS. Still waiting for the city to fall into the Pacific Ocean and Make America abetter place for all.

[erasmus81]

Is this a privately owned hospital?

[docpeter-2009]

Your''''re right and wrong...Yes,people sometimes slip through the cracks in the system but hospital staff from doctors to housekeeping are tested at least once a year. No excuses...If she was exposed to TB a simple chest xray would reveal it...This lady TB was active and she should be held responsible...she knew it and her employee healthcare dept. failed the patients by not following up on their employee.

Posted by reedtaz73 at 11:19 AM : Aug 27, 2008
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I don''t know of doctors being tested every year, at least not at the hospital I worked in for 15 years. The staff was annually tested, especially the ones that came in contact with the patients.

So, it is possible that the nurse tested negative at initial evaluation (March 10. 2008), acquired the disease and then tested postitive on or befoer August 10, 2008 (as stated in the above article).

And no, the routine test for Tb is not the chest x-ray, it is the Tb skin test, which, if it is positive the first try a second one is given, if that one is positive then x-rays and treatment are begun immediately whether the x-ray is positive for a gohn focus (evidence of Tb) or not. The nurse would skin test for the Tb antibody long before x-ray will reveal the presence of infection.

[credibility2]

Remote possibility of any infection, but easily treated? What a bunch of morons to have contributed to placing these newborns into harm''s way. I doubt if the hospital appropriately screened the individual responsible for causing this avoidable and preventable problem. I hope the hospital is sued and has to pay heavily for their malfeasance and total disregard to the safety and health of all of their patients.

[docpeter-2009]

There is nothing to worry about. I am sure that gop-forever will pray for all of the babies that were born in that hospital. After all he is a republican.

Posted by pollroller1 at 11:27 AM : Aug 27, 2008
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WRONG!

I am a vindictive feminist Hillary supporter and I am voting for McCain out of spite.

Posted by gop_forever at 09:33 AM : Aug 27, 2008 (on another blog)

[nothappyatall]

Shut up you liberals, it responds will to antibiotics!
Posted by gop_forever"

So they CLAIM in order to cover their azz from lawsuits, antibiotic resistant strains are growing. Once infected TB doesnt just go away like a cold even after it''s treated.

[edward1975-2009]

In San Francisco, lucky they weren''t exposed to something else.

[pollroller1]

There is nothing to worry about. I am sure that gop-forever will pray for all of the babies that were born in that hospital. After all he is a republican.

[reedtaz73]

IN YOUR perfect little world NOTHING ever goes wrong, does it?
I suppose in the fairie tale in which you live all 1100 Hospital Staff, contractors, volunteers, and vendors get tested for TB every day, right?

Gimmie a BREAK!!! Posted by DaVicar2 at 10:27 AM : Aug 27, 2008


Your''re right and wrong...Yes,people sometimes slip through the cracks in the system but hospital staff from doctors to housekeeping are tested at least once a year. No excuses...If she was exposed to TB a simple chest xray would reveal it...This lady TB was active and she should be held responsible...she knew it and her employee healthcare dept. failed the patients by not following up on their employee.

[lloydbest1]

"Dr. Parodi said the infection risk for patients was low and that the worker had a common strain of TB that responds well to antibiotics."

Does anyone else have a problem with the concept of "common strain of TB"?

[beehive21-2009]

Never go to a Hospital.unless your dead.

[deacon20081]

I have worked in a hospital. There is no excuse for this event to have occured. Every staffer, nurse, physician, worker, you name it, is routinely tested.
Precautions are mandatory. I guess in SF they are too preoccupied with gay Marriage Plans.

[pirmin3]

"Shut up you liberals, it responds will to antibiotics! "
What else would you expect a GOP doc to say at a no-bid contract hospital? Probably on his way to the country club.